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Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
162 mentions on Hacker News by 138 people: 22 stories, 140 comments · first 2013-11-29 · latest 2026-10-04
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…it into existing systems. I dream of one day ordering a System76 with Redox already installed. [1]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils.git [2]: https://www.redox-os.org/
comment by Datenstrom · 2020-05-03 · in Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017) -
…as a systems programming language, there's a fairly far along implemention that already exists: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/README.md
comment by saghm · 2020-02-25 · in Fuchsia Programming Language Policy -
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ?
comment by orf · 2020-02-02 · in Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers -
Core utils in Rust: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by vips7L · 2020-02-02 · in Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers -
For coreutils actually written from scratch, see a more interesting project: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by viraptor · 2019-11-14 · in Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust -
…Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils [2] [1] https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd [2] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by Fnoord · 2019-07-30 · in Exa – A Modern Replacement for Ls -
…to giving Rust a shot I think their idea of reimplementing coreutils in the language has merit. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by voxadam · 2018-05-16 · in Tarballs, the ultimate container image format -
…the "standard" gnu coreutils, as well as suckless tools, and 9base from plan9. And projects like https://github.com/uutils/coreutils So there's plenty of places to draw inspiration from.
comment by e12e · 2018-03-25 · in Look for the duct tape -
How about replacing the core utilities? https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by phkahler · 2018-02-23 · in Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications Today -
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils for instance Personally, I don't find this a bad idea, as long as it is not the primary thrust. The reason it is needed is that you aren't going to convince everyone to change the default tools they've…
comment by dcsommer · 2017-12-05 · in Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? -
…interesting to try to cobble together a Linux distribution with a rust userland, using coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ) and over time building more and more of the userland/interface in rust.
comment by AtticusTheGreat · 2017-12-04 · in Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? -
…I'm misunderstanding but there is a pretty serious effort to rewrite all the gnu coreutils in Rust: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by xwvvvvwx · 2017-12-04 · in Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? -
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is a long way along.
comment by dbaupp · 2017-10-09 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust -
…utils wrapper) tokei: https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei (loc stats) And of course this: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by coldtea · 2017-10-08 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust -
…quality auto-completion for every command. --- [1] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty [2] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by brandur · 2017-07-01 · in Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust -
…to write an OS from scratch: https://www.redox-os.org Then there's the Rust rewrite of coreutils: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils Someone also did the research on building a Linux kernel module in Rust, though it seems like quite the…
comment by kosinus · 2017-06-28 · in Increasing Rust’s Reach -
…in original C ( https://github.com/goj/coreutils/blob/rm-d/src/ls.c ) and its rewrite in Rust ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls/ls.rs ) are quite different. The rewrite doesn't implement half of the original options.…
comment by alexeiz · 2017-04-17 · in Why don't you just rewrite it in X? -
…Golang runtime for example. Objective-C to Swift migration. Various parts of Firefox. Coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ). Ruby extensions: https://codeandtalk.com/v/fullstackfest-2015/full-stack-fest... . remacs:…
comment by lossolo · 2017-03-30 · in Addendum to “Curl is C” -
…Golang runtime for example. Objective-C to Swift migration. Various parts of Firefox. Coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ). Ruby extensions: https://codeandtalk.com/v/fullstackfest-2015/full-stack-fest... remacs:…
comment by fiedzia · 2017-03-30 · in Addendum to “Curl is C” -
Observation: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/LICENSE GNU coreutils is GPL, this is MIT.
comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-03-22 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils -
…Ugly. I looked at one random file which turned out to be a `du' command implementation: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/du/du.rs... Are they really starting a new OS level thread for every directory found? Looks like an…
comment by codedokode · 2016-03-22 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils -
Just to give an example: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/whoami/p... looks suspically simmilar to: http://code.metager.de/source/xref/gnu/coreutils/src/whoami....
comment by jeena · 2016-03-22 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils -
I wonder why they decided to write their own coreutils instead of using https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by yincrash · 2016-03-19 · in Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust -
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils - in Rust. https://github.com/aisola/go-coreutils - in Go. https://github.com/search?l=Nimrod&q=coreutils&type=Reposito... - in Nim (didn't seem to take off) You know how people write a to-do list, or a…
comment by voltagex_ · 2016-02-24 · in Cash: a cross-platform implementation of Unix shell commands in JavaScript -
How about a re-write of coreutils in Rust? https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by cls59 · 2016-02-23 · in Rewrite Everything in Rust -
https://github.com/redox-os/redox https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by efuquen · 2016-02-16 · in Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow -
…I failed to find git's checkout function, even with a good bit of energy put into it. 0: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils 1: https://github.com/mkottman/lua-git/blob/d64218a227fe26b1fc9...
comment by mitchtbaum · 2015-10-29 · in Pijul version control system -
Or contribute to the project that's already doing so: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ (I myself wrote a little wc for fun a month ago, still missing some compatibility things https://github.com/steveklabnik/rwc/blob/master/src/main.rs…
comment by steveklabnik · 2015-08-14 · in Rust in 2016 -
Efforts have been done, see: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils https://www.google.com/search?q=coreutils+rust
comment by agumonkey · 2015-06-07 · in Unix is not an acceptable Unix -
…is a waste of time, I figured it's worth mentioning the Rust based re-implementation of coreutils: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ And another by suckless in plain C: http://git.suckless.org/sbase/tree/README
comment by caipre · 2015-05-09 · in Gonix – Unix tools written in Go -
There is uutils [1], which I believe is doing exactly what you are saying. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by whyever · 2015-02-22 · in Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust -
The Rust version, from the coreutils rewrite project: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/echo/ech...
comment by twic · 2015-02-22 · in Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU Coreutils Implementations of Echo.c -
…reason: they provide an example of Rust is one of it's niche environments - low level tooling. [0]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by indiv0 · 2015-02-22 · in Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust -
There's a core-utils in rust repo https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by paulmlewis · 2014-12-12 · in Show HN: Iota – a text editor written in Rust -
No need to wait! :) https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by untothebreach · 2014-12-02 · in Go: Planning the 1.5 release -
By the way, you may be interested in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
comment by steveklabnik · 2014-10-26 · in Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files -
…be to port all of GNU/Linux to Rust. Here's a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882211 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/master/src
comment by chime · 2014-10-25 · in Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files -
…you didn't write. Rust made the list because somebody already ported the GNU core utils to Rust ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ). Feel free to use C++11/14, OCaml, D or what have you. I hope we agree that C isn't the best choice.
comment by teamhappy · 2014-09-28 · in Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU